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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6135
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1806
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. ROCHELLE, 104th Dist.
SEN. CABRERA, 17th Dist.
REP. WELANDER, 114th Dist.
REP. KLARIDES-DITRIA, 105th Dist.
AN ACT INCREASING FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR DISTRESSED
MUNICIPALITIES THAT CHOOSE TO REGIONALIZE THEIR SCHOOL
DISTRICTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of section 10-285a of the general 1
statutes be amended to increase the amount of the regionalization bonus 2
for a new construction or renovation school building project grant from 3
ten per cent to fifteen per cent for all towns establishing or expanding a 4
regional school district, and to increase such bonus to twenty per cent if 5
two or more towns establishing or expanding a regional school district 6
are distressed municipalities, as defined in section 32-9p of the general 7
statutes; and, that chapter 172 of the general statutes be amended to 8
provide a regionalization bonus grant to any distressed municipality 9
that establishes a regional school district and that such grant shall be in 10
an amount equal to fifty per cent of the projected savings to the state 11
that will be achieved as a result of regionalizing the school district over 12 Proposed Bill No. 6135
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the initial ten-year period and paid out during the first two fiscal years 13
following the establishment of the regional school district. 14
Statement of Purpose:
To provide additional financial resources to towns that are distressed
municipalities and that choose to regionalize their school districts.